Meat Beat Manifesto – ScarKord Mixtape 2
Some days, you just need to listen to breakbeats. Today is one of those days, and inspired my second Meat Beat Manifesto ‘Mixtape’. Certainly had fun chopping up and fusing…
Category: Music
Demos from the Woodland EP sessions
Going through old hard drives and found some early demos from the Woodland EP sessions which for one reason or another didn’t make their way onto the EP. With the…
Abandoned (ScarKord Expansion)
Here’s an impromptu collaboration with el-bo It started life as an idea el-bo put together for the Sound Aesthetics, Show Us Your Music challenge, but subsequently abandoned. I really thought…
Life In Pieces
Here’s a new piece of music I wrote this evening, using only sounds from the Fragments Kontakt Library, created by Sound Aesthetics Sampling. You may also have noticed it isn’t released…
Jumparoo
Wow, music lessons seem a lot more fun than back in my day 🙂 This is a piece of music I wrote with my son, James, for one of his…
Out From The Cold
Day three of Ableton‘s #loopathome and it was a strange one. The challenge this time was to follow a list of instructions and see what the end result would be.…
Radio Poland Calling
Day Two of Ableton‘s #loopathome and for today’s challenge I’ve been limited to only using sounds from the Polish Radio Experimental Studio Archive, or PRES for short. PRES were similar…
Gizmophone
Today was day one of Ableton‘s #LoopAtHome and they set a challenge to build and record your own ‘Gizmophone’ instrument. Unfortunately, I had urgent gardening to attend to (?) so…
Isolation Loop Waltz
Finally found time to write some new music. For inspiration, I turned to the Isolation Loop packs kindly donated by Hainbach and Jamie Lidell and it’s been a really fun…
Reference Tracks
I’ve long heard about the virtues of using reference tracks to compare your mixes against, but never actually got around to trying it myself. That might all be about to…